Gustaf in Our time is now, gave him the first prize

He is significantly happy about the price. The results of a total of 130 days of recording work.

It is the first award I received as an actor, and it's particularly fun and an honour to get a awarded by the industry, in this the jury are people who can and have seen an awful lot of tv, " says a easy hes Nordkvist to DN the day after the prisgalan, named after tv presenter and producer Ria Wägner.

– but actually, it was my character Gustaf Löwander that was the year profile.

Riagalans jury writes in the explanatory memorandum: ”From out of nowhere came the hen and took over our living room with a cocky self-evident. Some love her, others love to hate her. But we all agree that the impressive professional skills must be rewarded.”

In the category of this Year's profile was in the year, in addition to Mattias Nordkvist also Lena Philipsson for his interpretation of this year's advent calendar, the ”Storm on the Quiet street” and Christoffer Hermansson for the ”36 days on the street”. It is the ninth time the trade association Film & television producers award prizes to the country's tv-maker, creators, employees and the source maker.

Mattias Nordkvist in the role of Gustaf Löwander. Photo: Johan Paulin

" It has been extremely challenging to portray him not just want to paint him up as a general swine. I have tried to look into the underlying main reasons why he become such and what he is wrestling with inside. It was important to me that he would have a kind of pain points, too, so that it became more believable when he later in the tv series become more and more calm after their crises, respond Nordkvist.

– A big part of the reason why he feels as he feels, and drink so much is to dull their homosexual orientation, this was a very different time.

to get a feel for post-war Sweden, he read kockpionjären Tore Wretmans book about his years at Operakällaren, and in addition Astrid Lindgren's krigsdagböcker.

" It is enough, among other things, for the era it is set in, from 1945 onwards, the interests of the people. One of the series ' strengths is that you have created multiple characters – you can follow all in this family and all who work at the restaurant. In this way it attracts the viewers of different ages, he points out.

"It has been really fun to be stopped on the town of families in which both parents and their teenage children followed the series," he says. Such lägerelds-tv is not common nowadays.

Mattias Nordkvist, was born in 1978 and trained at the Malmö theatre academy, are living in the Gothenburg city theater's permanent ensemble. He has appeared in productions of, among others, ”waiting for Godot”, ”A salesman of death” and Lars Noréns ”the Night is today's mother” at the side of the directing and skådespelaruppdrag on, among other things, Teater Sörmland and Uppsala city theatre and the filmjobb as ”Molanders”, ”Happy End” and ”Hallonbåtsflyktingen”. He has also been awarded to Lars Passgårds scholarship.

" I'm playing right now, into a new SVT series outside of Oulu in Finland, called the ”White wall”, it will be ready in may. It is a kind of supernatural dramathriller in modern time if a team in a disused malmgruva where to dispose nuclear waste. But when you start to drill so, you will discover that there is something there that you don't really know what it is.

Then, 26 march, waiting for a real scenbyte: Strindberg's Intimate theatre in Stockholm and the ”Forbidden entrance” by Victoria Benedictsson. It is processed and played by Mattias Nordkvist and directed by Anna Pettersson.

– It is a monologue based on the Benedictssons diaries from the 1800s, I'll play it in a month.

– No, when it comes to ”Our time is now” have I thanked for me now. After three seasons, I felt that I spent enough with Gustaf-the character – though I really loved playing him.

Among the other victorious entries Riagalan tagged the movie ”Bergman – a life in four acts” (B-Reel Films), the tv-series ”Sisters 1968” (Anagrams), ”Madame Deemas wonderful journey” (Tally-Ho Creatives) and the composers Martin Hederos and Irya Gmeyner for their johannes music to ”Sisters in 1968”.